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Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 12, p e0167983 (2016), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016.
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Abstract
- Peer-reviewed publications focusing on climate change are growing exponentially with the consequence that the uptake and influence of individual papers varies greatly. Here, we derive metrics of narrativity from psychology and literary theory, and use these metrics to test the hypothesis that more narrative climate change writing is more likely to be influential, using citation frequency as a proxy for influence. From a sample of 732 scientific abstracts drawn from the climate change literature, we find that articles with more narrative abstracts are cited more often. This effect is closely associated with journal identity: higher-impact journals tend to feature more narrative articles, and these articles tend to be cited more often. These results suggest that writing in a more narrative style increases the uptake and influence of articles in climate literature, and perhaps in scientific literature more broadly.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Atmospheric Science
History
Emotions
Social Sciences
lcsh:Medicine
02 engineering and technology
Scientific literature
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
Citation analysis
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Psychology
lcsh:Science
Language
Climatology
Principal Component Analysis
Multidisciplinary
Research Assessment
Publishing
Physical Sciences
Regression Analysis
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Journal Impact Factor
Statistics (Mathematics)
Research Article
Science Policy
Climate Change
Climate change
Linear Regression Analysis
Bibliometrics
Research and Analysis Methods
03 medical and health sciences
Literary theory
Narrative
Statistical Methods
business.industry
lcsh:R
Narrativity
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Epistemology
030104 developmental biology
Multivariate Analysis
Earth Sciences
Cognitive Science
lcsh:Q
business
Mathematics
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....037def87ac64d46febc2e3611cb85717